Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 500 makes supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations and gives direction and transfer and other adjustment authority with respect to the General Appropriations Act and supplemental appropriations act adopted by the 88th Texas Legislature, Regular Session.

House Bill 500 reduces appropriations from the general revenue fund by roughly $277 million and makes supplemental appropriations for the 2024-2025 state fiscal biennium totaling approximately $18.1 billion, of which $13.259 billion is from the general revenue fund; $380 million is from federal funds; $57 million is from general revenue dedicated accounts; and $989 million is from various other sources. In addition, the bill appropriates slightly more than $3.41 billion in unexpended and unobligated balances remaining from various appropriations made by the 87th and 88th Texas Legislatures.

As part of the appropriations outlined above, House Bill 500 appropriates over $2.5 billion to the Texas Water Development Board to be used for water infrastructure and supply projects and over $124 million to the Texas A&M Forest Service for the purpose of responding to natural disasters. Moreover, the bill sets the sum-certain appropriation to the Foundation School Program for state fiscal year 2025 at $30,924,285,550.

Except for Section 1.14(a)(2), which does not take effect due to the governor's line-item veto, House Bill 500 takes effect June 22, 2025.

Governor's Reason for Veto of Section 1.14(a)(2): "Increasing our physical and cyber security is a priority for Texas. However, this funding is duplicative of other state initiatives including the Texas Cyber Command and would create an additional SCIF where others are currently operational. The Legislature can reconsider this item next session if the federal partner expresses direct support for such a project."